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Article #953Re: which linux to get
From: Peter T. Breuer
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:50
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In comp.os.linux.help J. Bruce Fields <bfields@login.itd.umich.edu> wrote: > In article <f69799.rt7.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>, > Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote: >>In comp.os.linux.help J. Bruce Fields <bfields@login.itd.umich.edu> wrote: >>> Couldn't you get the same effect from installing different versions of >>> proprietary operating systems? Where does "freedom", of the sort that >>> Linux offers, come into it? >> >>In deciding exactly what packages go in, what stays out, in configuring >>the system, the packages, in changing the code, in throwing out their >>choice for yours. >> > So it's the configuration that's the important step, not the initial No, it's dealing with the configuration that's important. I.e. learning that making choices _yourself_ is OK. > installation? And don't, e.g., Windows and MacOS offer some configuration No. But it doesn't matter. > they're faced with during installation and configuration will appear > fairly irrelevant and confusing. Should I have 2 partitions or 20? Which > of the following 1000 software packages that I've never heard of should I Figuring out whether they are important or not, and why, is part of the lesson. Learning about finding out is the aim of the lesson. Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: which linux to get
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:50:58 +0100
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